READING

Jack Kerouac's On the Road
50th Anniversary Celebration*

Cosponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum in collaboration with Penn's Kelly Writers House

Thursday, January 25, 2007
4:00 pm – Midnight

Arts Café, Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk, Penn campus

Event free and open to the public.

In 1957, the publication of On the Road rocketed Jack Kerouac to fame, launching the Beat Generation and inspiring a multi-generational obsession with “the road.” Kerouac wrote the novel in a three-week burst on paper he taped together and called “the scroll.” Penn’s Kelly Writers House celebrates this 50th anniversary with improvisational jazz and a marathon reading of On the Road by local luminaries and members of the public.

For more information and to participate in the reading, contact Kelly Writers House or 215.573.WRIT.

*Kelly Writers House First Levin Annual Program in memory of Charles Bernheimer.